Carmen Jones (film)

Carmen Jones
Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass
Directed byOtto Preminger
Screenplay byHarry Kleiner
Based onCarmen Jones
by Oscar Hammerstein II
Produced byOtto Preminger
StarringHarry Belafonte
Dorothy Dandridge
Pearl Bailey
Olga James
Joe Adams
CinematographySam Leavitt
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Music byGeorges Bizet
Production
company
Otto Preminger Films
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 28, 1954 (1954-10-28)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$800,000
Box office$9.8 million[1]

Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film featuring an African American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, from the 1943 stage musical of the same name, set to the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The opera was an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

Carmen Jones was a CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color motion picture that had begun shooting within the first 12 months of Twentieth Century Fox's venture in 1953 to the widescreen format as its main production mode. Carmen Jones was released in October 1954, exactly one year and one month after Fox's first CinemaScope venture, the Biblical epic The Robe, had opened in theatres.

In 1992, Carmen Jones was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2][3]

  1. ^ 'They've Gotta Have Us': A Brilliant History of Black Cinema
  2. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  3. ^ Wharton, Andy Marx,Dennis; Marx, Andy; Wharton, Dennis (1992-12-04). "Diverse pix mix picked". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Developed by StudentB